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craz3z

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Fri Jun-20-08 09:50 AM
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Change Happens

And sometimes it happens because it's just time. Sometimes the force of the universe sweeps us up with it even we aren't expecting it. This is bigger than we are. I believe it's going to happen and here's why.

Levees Are Not Pork

Washington, D.C. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain opposed legislation last year that included money for flood control in Des Moines, which shows he is wrong to push for reforms to the congressional earmark system, a Democratic lawmaker charged Thursday.

President Bush eventually vetoed the bill, which authorized more than 900 navigation, flood-control and environmental projects across the country. A report on the bill said the Des Moines metropolitan area suffered more than $152 million in flood damage in 1993.

Good Morning America, How Are You?

What happened in New Orleans had nothing to do with you, they were told. Move on. Listen, we have a war to win and we can’t get bin Laden unless you go shopping. Who knows how many more blond high school girls might disappear in suspicious circumstances if you don’t convert to digital cable and get that iPhone. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

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I hope that now they will realize that the country is full of levees that could fail at any moment, bridges like the one in Minnesota that could collapse. They need to know that the government the ruling political classes have worked at gutting and making ineffective for the last 30 years cannot help you, not in its current form or with its current leadership (not just one party or the other: Reaganomics and Clinton Bubblenomics have both gutted our ability to do anything as a nation). Everyone in this nation needs to know that tomorrow it could happen to them if something is not done, and what it will mean to them when it happens

Please read te rest of the blog. Please.

Obama '08
YES WE CAN.

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JimGinPA

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Fri Jun-20-08 09:54 AM
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1. If Your Profile Wasn't Hidden I Would Have Recommended This

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craz3z

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Fri Jun-20-08 10:05 AM
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2. Thanks

Sorry. I'm a newbie, but thank you.

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JimGinPA

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Fri Jun-20-08 10:06 AM
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3. Welcome - K&R

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Arugula Latte

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Fri Jun-20-08 10:18 AM
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4. Welcome to DU!

:toast: :hi:

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Hope And Change

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Fri Jun-20-08 10:23 AM
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5. Welcome to DU craz3z!

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craz3z

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Fri Jun-20-08 01:06 PM
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6. I would just like to add

Because I goofed up and left it out:

Congress just approved another almost $200 billion for Iraq without knowing where it's coming from or even keeping track of who it's going to; yet when someone wants to appropriate a few dollars for levees in Iowa or a bridge in Minnesota they are accused of funding pork.

The war in Iraq has turned into the biggest pork project of all. Levees are not pork.

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K8-EEE

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Fri Jun-20-08 10:08 PM
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7. Off with you!

Off to Greatest with you....K&R!

NO, LEVEES ARE NOT PORK!!! INFRASTRUCTURE IS NOT PORK!

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AuntPatsy

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Fri Jun-20-08 10:09 PM
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8. I hope this vision comes to pass....

Edited on Fri Jun-20-08 10:16 PM by AuntPatsy

And that enough people will wake up and do something to ensure change does become a reality for us all...

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K Gardner

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Fri Jun-20-08 10:12 PM
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9. I was just watching a report on this.. excellent.. thank you and welcome !

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tblue37

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Fri Jun-20-08 10:17 PM
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10. K&R n/t

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Cha

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Fri Jun-20-08 10:29 PM
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11. I believe it's going to happen, too..and

welcome to DU even though you joined in 2006:)

Thanks for the links..and getting this out here on our board.

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K8-EEE

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Sat Jun-21-08 03:03 AM
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12. I just can't get over the "living in the horse trailer" thing

Um, for years, living in a horse trailer? THAT WOULD SUCK EVEN FOR A HORSE!

Didn't this used to be a first world country? I can see it for a few days but these people have been displced for too long. TOTAL INCOMPETENCE!

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